Allamanda cathartica L.
മഞ്ഞകോളാമ്പി


Family: APOCYNACEAE
Sub-Family: Not available
English Name: Golden Trumpet
Synonym: Allamanda aubletii Pohl.,AllamandasalicifoliaHort.
Common Name: Common allamanda
Flowering & Fruiting Period: Throughout the year
Distribution: World wide
Habitat: Grown as ornamental
Uses: Ornamental, Hedge plant
Key Characteristics: Allamanda cathartica is a Straggling shrub with whorled leaves. Flowers in terminal or axillary short-peduncled cymes. Calyx obovate-acute. Corolla yellow, funnel-shaped; throat densely villous; lobes 5, orbicular. Stamens 5, included in the basal constricted part of corolla tube; anthers subsessile, sagittate, mucronate. Ovary bilocular; stigma ovoid with a basal ring like appendage.